According to the report, Spotify will raise its standard subscription rate by $1 next week, bringing the monthly cost from $9.99 to $10.99.

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I’m all for bashing corporations, but y’all, this is a $1 increase for the first time in years. Not only is that reasonable, If anything, the rate of inflation is such that this is still effectively cheaper than it has been just a couple years ago.

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Idk I said the same about Netflix years ago

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Does the calculation showing that it’s cheaper when accounting for inflation also account for wage stagnation? ~Strawberry

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Or you use a good adblocker and then get extremely irritated when you once in a while have to listen to an ad ;)

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If the ads are baked in, just hit the 15s jump button a couple of times until you get back into the podcast. The ones I listen to usually play music during the ads, so when I hear the music is over I know I’m back in the podcast.

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Sorry, didn’t realize you were referring to promos that Spotify runs for their content. Yeah I guess they don’t have a way to turn that off, but it’s a simple button to get past.

Also, fast forwarding really is not a big deal. While I’m out walking my dog and kiddo I just tap my ear buds twice and it fast forwards 15 seconds past the baked in ads in the podcast.

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You just gotta stop listening to podcasts in Spotify. They’re hands down the worst listening experience for them.

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Pretty sure the only ads on spotify podcasts are the ones built in to the podcast recording, like the audio file includes the ads

At least i never get any ads from spotify listening to podcasts, unless the people doing the podcast have ads

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Ah i see. Idk if i’d call that an ad any more than any other recommended playlist or album on the home page being called an ad

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afaik, podcasts can choose to have ads (I don’t mean sponsorships) enabled. most podcasts I listen to have sponsorships, but for example the lateral podcast from tom scott actually has ‘real’ ads in it, even with premium.

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couldn’t agree with you more. it can’t be that hard to give us an opt-out of podcasts altogether. there’s been an item for that on their feature request forum for as long as podcasts in spotify are a thing

they just don’t want to

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Tbf Spotify produced podcasts don’t have the ads baked in so you can skip them almost immediately.

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Pretty much inevitable I’ve been amazed they went this long. $10 just does not seem sustainable.

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Im fairly sure they manage because they have so many subscriptions from people that barely use it.

They basically pay out per song played - and server costs are also largely dependent on active users. So they balance out a very active person that might incur 15$ in cost with 5 inactive people that incur not even a dollar.

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Then there are people like me who do use Spotify a lot, but I’m mostly listening to the same stuff most of the time. Unless I’m trying to find new things or listen to a podcast, it’s most likely all cached on my device.

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Well, they pay artists 0.03¢ every 1000 play or something…

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I guess I don’t really know exactly how their model works, but I’m guessing that is only for independent artists. I bet they paid big bucks to the major record labels.

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To record label yes, to artists, no

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They were the last to do this. Can’t even be mad about it.

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Is it just the single account or is the family account also increasing?

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